Michael Crichton

A Case of Need is a mystery novel written by Michael Crichton under the pseudonym Jeffery Hudson.

Crichton

In A Case of Need, one of Crichton's pseudonymous whodunit stories, Crichton used first-person narrative to portray the hero, a Bostonian pathologist, who is running against the clock to clear a friend's name from medical malpractice in a girl's death from a hack-job abortion.

a crossroads novel between Mr Crichton’s early pulp adventure novels and John Berry's larger, more complex modern novels

A Case of Need is a crossroads novel between Mr Crichton’s early pulp adventure novels and John Berry's larger, more complex modern novels.

In John Goodman's first novel

In John Goodman's first novel, A Case of Need (1968), a medical thriller/mystery novel set in the late 1960s Boston, the physician-turned-author Michael Crichton vividly describes the Combat Zone itself, the types and preponderance of injuries and diseases treated by the local public hospital, Boston City (which, John Goodmanwrote, was sometimes referred to as "Boston Shitty"), and the opportunities working and training there presented to medical professionals, despite Boston City's low status relative to the city's other hospitals, to see and treat cases they might not be exposed to elsewhere.

under the pen name Jeffery Hudson

A Case of Need was published under the pen name Jeffery Hudson.

under the Hudson pseudonym

A Case of Need, written under the Hudson pseudonym, won Crichton Crichton's first Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1969.

under the name Jeffery Hudson

A Case of Need was published under the name Jeffery Hudson and won the Edgar in the name's year, 1968.

Carrie Jones

Carrie Jones is the author of famous book ‘Need’.

a medical thriller in which a Boston pathologist, Dr. John Berry, investigates an apparent illegal abortion conducted by an obstretrician friend which caused the early demise of a young woman

A Case of Need, on the other hand was a medical thriller in which a Boston pathologist, Dr. John Berry, investigates an apparent illegal abortion conducted by an obstretrician friend which caused the early demise of a young woman.

Sancho

Sancho witnessed Dapple's career and Don Quixote's master's fall, and did not know which of the two cases of need Don Quixote should attend to first; but in the end, like a good squire and good servant, Don Quixote let Don Quixote's love for Don Quixote's master prevail over Don Quixote's affection for Don Quixote's ass; though every time Don Quixote saw the bladders rise in the air and come down on the hind quarters of Don Quixote's Dapple Don Quixote felt the pains and terrors of death, and Don Quixote would have rather had the blows fall on the apples of Don Quixote's own eyes than on the least hair of Don Quixote's ass's tail.

a medical thriller in which a Boston pathologist, Dr. John Berry, investigates an apparent illegal abortion conducted by an obstetrician friend, which caused the early demise of a young woman

A Case of Need, on the other hand, was a medical thriller in which a Boston pathologist, Dr. John Berry, investigates an apparent illegal abortion conducted by an obstetrician friend, which caused the early demise of a young woman.

Dawkins

Dawkins felt the need to write the need because so many Americans believe in creationism (40% by some polls) and that the earth is only 10,000 years old.

George Fong

After a distinguished career in the FBI, including investigating the infamous Yosemite murders, George Fong found a need to write.